There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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